Newsletter Volume 8 No. 4 Issue No. 31 January 2014 Message from Director Contents 2 ▼ Research 3 ▼ Capacity Development 5 ▼ Networking Activity 8 ▼ Other Topics 8 ▼ Publication List ICHARM has started the year 2014 with a refreshed enthusiasm under a renewed agreement between UNESCO and the government of Japan signed last July. The new agreement requires us to establish the Governing Board, which was the Advisory Board in the previous agreement. We expect that the Governing Board of top inter- national executives will examine ICHARM’s activity plan to ensure proactive imple- mentation. We are making our best effort to prepare for the first board meeting, scheduled on February 25. Near the turn of the year, we had another devastating disaster, when storm surges by Typhoon Haiyan (locally called Yolanda) hit Leyte Island of the Philippines on No- vember 8. It was reportedly the strongest typhoon ever recorded among the landed. Many houses and towns were completely swept out, and more than 6,000 people were killed. It was only 7 years ago when Leyte experienced a giant landslide, which occurred after weeks of heavy rains and killed more than ten thousand people. Meanwhile, in Japan, peo- ple in Oshima Island were still at a loss after a deadly debris flow, unable to make any plans yet for recovery. Right after the turn of the year, we also saw many pictures of floods in Southwest England and Wales. Indeed, extreme hydro-met phenomena have been increasing. Under such circumstances, the role of ICHARM is growing. One of the reasons is that it assumes the responsibility of the most critical part of disaster prevention; that is, as Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu says, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need no fear even against a hundred battles.” In disaster prevention, to know the enemy is to know the characteristics of the hazards and their forecasts, and to know yourself is to assess exposure and vulnerability of human activities, coping capacities and institutional arrangements. ICHARM, together with foreign students, is concentrating on acquisition and produc- tion of such knowledge on hazards and society in combination with capacity develop- ment programs, and apply the research results to local practices by helping practition- ers of national and regional governments. Based on such substantive experiences, ICHARM also takes part in international efforts of policy and strategy making. We hope ICHARM receives even further cooperation and support from the world to continue activities under the renewed agreement. ユネスコのカテゴリー 2 センター に関わるルールの見直しに伴い、昨 年7月、ユネスコ・日本政府間の 協定も改定されました。したがっ て 2014 年は、ICHARM にとって新 協定下での新年になります。セン ター員一同、気持ちも新たに活動を 開始しました。新協定では、従来の 諮問委員会に代り、運営理事会に ICHARM の運営を審査頂くことにな ります。理事会には内外関係機関の トップを迎え、大所高所からの審査 とご指導を期待しています。第一回 理事会は 2 月 25 日に開催の予定で、 それに向けた準備を進めています。 昨年末には、また悲惨な災害が起き ました。11 月 8 日にレイテ島を中 心に襲ったサイクロン・ハイヤン ( 台 風 30 号 ) による高潮で、多くの町 が壊滅し 6000 人以上の方々が亡く なりました。上陸した台風としては 観測史上最大規模だったと報じられ ています。レイテ島ではわずか 7 年 前、巨大地すべりで 1000 人以上の 方が亡くなったところです。日本で はこれに先立つ台風 26 号で、大島 の土石流災害により 50 人近くの方 が亡くなり、避難された方々の帰還 の計画も立たない時期でした。新年 早々にはイギリスから、暮れからの 雨で各地で洪水が発生したニュース が届けられています。気象の極端事 象は進化の一途をたどっています。 そんな中で ICHARM への期待はます ます高まっています。水防災という 戦いの中で最も重要な、「敵を知り 己を知れば百戦危うからず」と言う ところを分担しているからです。敵 を知るのはハザードの特性研究、予 報であり、己を知るのは人間活動の 暴露と脆弱性の評価です。対策や社 会の仕組みの評価も含まれます。こ れら敵と己を知る技術の研究を、能 力開発プログラムを一体に、留学生 と一緒に研究し、その成果を現地の 実務者を通じて実践に移していま す。その上で、リスク削減の国際政 策や体制作りにも参加しています。 新しい協定の下での ICHARM の発展 に、一層のご支援をお願いします。 31 January 2014 Kuniyoshi Takeuchi Director of ICHARM Wallingford, England photo by John Rodda 2014.1.11 East Samar, Leyte Island photo by Mamoru Miyamoto 2013.12.13
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NewsletterVolume 8 No. 4 Issue No. 31 January 2014
Message from Director
Contents
2 ▼ Research 3 ▼ Capacity Development 5 ▼ Networking Activity 8 ▼ Other Topics 8 ▼ Publication List
ICHARM has started the year 2014 with a refreshed enthusiasm under a renewed agreement between UNESCO and the government of Japan signed last July. The new agreement requires us to establish the Governing Board, which was the Advisory Board in the previous agreement. We expect that the Governing Board of top inter-national executives will examine ICHARM’s activity plan to ensure proactive imple-mentation. We are making our best effort to prepare for the first board meeting, scheduled on February 25.
Near the turn of the year, we had another devastating disaster, when storm surges by Typhoon Haiyan (locally called Yolanda) hit Leyte Island of the Philippines on No-vember 8. It was reportedly the strongest typhoon ever recorded among the landed. Many houses and towns were completely swept out, and more than 6,000 people were killed. It was only 7 years ago when Leyte experienced a giant landslide, which occurred after weeks of heavy rains and killed more than ten thousand people. Meanwhile, in Japan, peo-ple in Oshima Island were still at a loss after a deadly debris flow, unable to make any plans yet for recovery. Right after the turn of the year, we also saw many pictures of floods in Southwest England and Wales. Indeed, extreme hydro-met phenomena have been increasing.
Under such circumstances, the role of ICHARM is growing. One of the reasons is that it assumes the responsibility of the most critical part of disaster prevention; that is, as Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu says, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need no fear even against a hundred battles.” In disaster prevention, to know the enemy is to know the characteristics of the hazards and their forecasts, and to know yourself is to assess exposure and vulnerability of human activities, coping capacities and institutional arrangements.
ICHARM, together with foreign students, is concentrating on acquisition and produc-tion of such knowledge on hazards and society in combination with capacity develop-ment programs, and apply the research results to local practices by helping practition-ers of national and regional governments. Based on such substantive experiences, ICHARM also takes part in international efforts of policy and strategy making.
We hope ICHARM receives even further cooperation and support from the world to continue activities under the renewed agreement.
The Capacity Development Technical Assistance (CDTA): Transformation of Urban Management (CDTA 8456) was approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on September 20, 2013, to implement in Myanmar. The CDTA will promote sustainable urban development in Myanmar towns by building institutional capacity of local au-thorities, leading to the prioritized needs-based provision of essential infrastructure as well as basic assessment of flood risk in this flood prone-country. The CDTA has two parts, i.e., Part I: Urban management and Part II: Flood management. Part II will focus on three key areas of the country (Yangon, Mandalay, and Mawlamyine), and involve two main counterpart institutes: the Myanmar Ministry of Construction (MOC) and the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), the Ministry of Trans-port. Flood and storm-surge risk assessment will be carried out in the Yangon plain, Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin river basins. The capacity of specialists in related govern-ment organizations, such as the DMH, will be developed by introducing training pro-grams and incorporating advanced hydro-meteorological analysis methods.
Since ICHARM is designated as the supervising agency of Part II of the CDTA, a team of ICHARM experts, Chief Researcher Toshio Okazumi, Research Specialist Yusuke Yama-zaki and Researcher Badri Shrestha, visited Myanmar on 18-23 November 2013 to join a consultation meeting with ADB, MOC and DMH. MOC and DMH warmly welcomed implementation of this project in Myanmar. The team also conducted a field investigation along the Yangon and Bago Rivers and also in the flood prone areas of the Yangon city.
Flooding has always been one of the major hazards in Myanmar. Heavy rains and over-flowing local rivers cause flooding in various parts of the country and many people are ex-posed to flood hazard every year. The coastal and delta areas are also severely affected by storm surges. Cyclone Nargis was a strong tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic destruction and at least 138,000 fatalities along its way in 2008. There is thus urgent need for flood risk management in Myanmar, and the implementation of the CDTA will definitely help the country to carry out proper flood risk management as the founda-tion for urban management.
(Written by Badri Shrestha, project led by Toshio Okazumi)
On November 11-15, 2013, the 29th meeting of ISO/TC 113 was held at CONAGUA (Comisión Nacional del Agua), a government agency, located in Mexico City, Mexico, to discuss issues under the title of “Hydrometry: Method of measurement of open-channel discharge.” ICHARM sent Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami and Researcher At-suhiro Yorozuya to attend a sub-committee on velocity area methods in addition to five other Japanese representatives from various offices including the Electricity and Telecommunication Office of the Technology Research Division of MLIT Ministry’s Secretariat, the Foundation of River and Basin Integrated Communications, the As-sociation of Electricity and Telecommunication Engineering for Land and Infrastruc-ture, and the International Pump Standard Commission. In this meeting, Yorozuya delivered a presentation on non-contact velocity meters and was appointed as a
committee member to draft techni-cal guidelines for standardizing non-contact velocity meters. The meet-ing also agreed that the 30th ISO/TC 113 group meeting will be held in May 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.
On October 8-11, 2013, ICHARM conducted training on the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS) in Manila, the Philippines. This training was provided for 26 engineers in charge of flood forecasting and warning over the Cagayan River basin as part of the joint technical assistance project (ADB TA8074-REG) organized by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) and the Ja-pan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
This project has been assisting local engineers in the development of technological tools for im-proving the accuracy of satellite rainfall data (i.e., GSMaP) used as IFAS input data as well as the installation of more ground rain gauges. Improved GSMaP will then be used for IFAS to carry out runoff analysis. IFAS and GS-MaP with better accuracy will help issue more effective flood forecasts and warnings.
The training consisted of three phases: a lecture on IFAS, practice of IFAS operation with the participants’ personal computers, and presentations of the training results. In the practice phase, the participants started with the installation of the IFAS soft-ware, moved on to setting the target basin, creating a river channel network, setting and calibrating the target rainfall, and finally simulating a past flood while calibrating various parameters. Four instructors from ICHARM were at the training, making sure that the participants understood the procedures, giving comments and advice, and answering questions. In the final phase, they presented simulation results with im-proved accuracy, which clearly shows that they successfully strengthened the ability
（2006-2007 年）では、情報共有のためのウエブサイトが設立され、データ共有のパイロット的取り組みが開始されました。ステップ２（2008-2012 年）では、利用衛星数が増加し、提供された衛星データを分析・加工する機関連合が組織されました。2013 年からは、本格的な実施段階 ( ステップ３) に入り、衛星データの幅広い共有と活用を目指しています。ステップ３の初回の合同会議である今次会合では、ICHARM の代表者は洪水WG の議長として、衛星データを活用した洪水氾濫域把握、衛星降雨データを活用した洪水予測システムの開発・運用、衛星データの補正技術等これまでの取り組みと今後の方向性についての発表を行いました。また、洪水 WGセッションでは、ADB、IWMI の活動報告を招聘し、意見交換を行いました。Sentinel Asia は本格実施段階に入りましたが、ますます頻発する水災害の軽減のために重要な役割を果たしていくと考えられ、ICHARM は、今後もSentinel Asia の各種活動を支援していく所存です。
The first joint project team meeting of Sentinel Asia Step 3 was held in Bangkok, Thai-land, on November 27-29, 2013. Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami of ICHARM attended the meeting as the chair of the Flood Working Group (Flood WG) along with 82 partici-pants from 51 organizations of 15 countries. Sentinel Asia was first proposed in 2004 by the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) to promote the effective use of satellite observation data provided by space agencies for disaster management purposes. More specifically, APRSAF in-tended to facilitate the use of such information by disaster management organizations through information and communication technology to mitigate disaster damage in the Asian region. Sentinel Asia has been in operation since 2006 in collaboration with relevant organizations of the member countries. Sentinel Asia has since gone through three multiple-year stages called Steps. At Step 1 (2006-2007), it started a pilot effort to explore how the members can share information by using its newly-launched website. In addition, the Flood and Wildfire Working Groups were set up, and the Global Flood Alert System started offering its service. At Step 2 (2008-2012), as the number of satellites used for the project increased, the Data Analysis Node was organized as a center to analyze and process satellite data. Two more work-ing groups for glacial lake outburst floods and tsunamis were also added to the previous two at this step. Step 3 has started since 2013. The project is expected to operate at its full potential and working towards sharing and using a wide swath of information in a disaster management cycle from pre-event preparedness to post-event restoration.At the first joint meeting of Step 3, Iwami made a presentation as the chair of the Flood WG regarding satellite-based flood area detection, the development and operation of a flood forecasting system using satellite rainfall information, a satellite-data calibration technology as well as a future direction of disaster management. At the Flood WG meeting, the Asian Development Bank and the International Water Management Institute were invited to re-port their current activities, which were followed by exchange of views among participants.Sentinel Asia has finally started its operation at a full scale and is expected to play a vital role in quickly providing satellite data for the mitigation of damage caused by in-creasingly frequent floods. In recognition of the importance of the project, ICHARM is committed to provide continued assistance in its activities.
ICHARM offers a master’s program entitled “Disaster Management Policy Program Water-related Risk Management Course,” which is jointly organized with the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies. Currently, 12 students are enrolled at this 7-year-old course, attending lectures and visiting places for better understanding of flood management in Japan. The following reports recent activities in which the students participated as part of their study at ICHARM:Last year, from October 30 to November 1, the students visited places in the middle Tonegawa River basin and the upper Kinugawa River basin and had opportunity to learn the following:
- They attended a lecture about damage caused by Typhoon Kathleen in 1947 around the confluence of the Tonegawa and Watarasegawa Rivers, and then visited the Watarase retarding basin and learned water use management using the retarding basin.
- They visited Kawaji and Yunishigawa Dams in the upper Kinugawa River basin and learned dam functions and integrated dam management.
- They visited erosion control dams in the Nikko and Ashio areas and learned sedi-ment management in mountains.
From December 4 to 6, the students vis-ited the Kanto Regional Development Bureau and the Japan Meteorological Agency. They also visited the Tsurumigawa River basin to learn comprehensive flood control. Comprehensive flood control is a package of flood control measures com-bining the use of conventional flood con-trol structures like dams with underground storages. The following are brief descrip-tions of the visits:
- They attended a lecture about rainfall ob-servation and flood forecasts and warnings at the Kanto Regional Development Bureau and the Japan Meteorological Agency and learned Japan’s flood forecasting technolo-gies and warning systems.
- They visited Kawawa and Onmawashi Park retarding basins in the Tsurumigawa River basin and learned urban flood control using underground spaces.
The students participated in the visits very seriously and asked many questions to lo-cal flood control experts. Some of them even asked local experts questions based on what they learned from lectures beforehand.Finally, we would like to thank all offices for their cooperation despite the busy schedules. (Written by Shun Kudo, project led by Minoru Kamoto)
The Philippines should be able to realize more effective flood forecasting and warn-ing as long as its engineers continue working to enhance the hydrological observa-tion system in the country and to increase their skills through further training.
(Written by Yusuke Yamazaki, Project led by Yoichi Iwami)
Co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) of Thailand, the 2nd ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting was held on November 5-7, 2013, in Bang-kok, Thailand. As a channel toward the Asia-Pacific consultation to establish the Hyogo Framework for Actions beyond 2015 (HFA2), this meeting gathered more than 150 participants consisting of representatives from UN entities, 20 govern-ments in Asia, inter-governmental institutions, private organizations, international research institutions, universities, civil society organizations, and so on.The meeting was divided into three sessions as follows:
I. IAP Working Group on AMCDRR : IAP members discussed conference pro-grams (especially during its Technical Session) for the 6th Asia Ministerial Con-ference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR), which is the major milestone toward the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
II. IAP Working Group on HFA monitoring and HFA2 : UNISDR and Key Area Co-ordinators reported the current status of the HFA2 consultation process and the Asian-Pacific contributions. IAP members identified the information gaps for each Key Area of the HFA2 consultation process.
III. Updates from partners and governments : In order to update the HFA2 consultation process, many mem-bers gave presentations on their background studies.
ICHARM sent Chief Researcher Toshio Okazumi and Re-search Specialist Sangeun Lee to this meeting to deliver ICHARM’s intent to make contributions to the HFA2, present various technologies available for water-related risk indicators, and make technical comments at the events. During this meeting, IAP members also welcomed ICHARM’s participation and encouraged participants to discuss collaboration.
Eight members of the Public Works Ministry of El Salvador and six members of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission (CWRC) visited ICHARM for one-day lectures on December 3 and 5 respectively. El Salvador participants were part of the Maintenance, River and Urban Drainage and Climate Change directions under the Public Works Ministry, being therefore in charge of design and maintenance works in hydraulic infrastructure with adaptive analysis. Chinese visitors are part of the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources and are responsible for development and management of water related struc-tures and flood control. The objec-tive of the visits was for the visitors to learn about integrated river basin management, disaster management and implementation of emergency measures. To achieve the objectives, participants received lectures about “Introduction to ICHARM’s Activities and Training” and “Integrated Flood Risk Management and Basin-Wide Modeling”.
(Written by Sangeun Lee, Project led by Toshio Okazumi)
(Written by Fernandez Reynosa Rodrigo and Masood Muhammad, Project led by Minoru Kamoto)
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Networking Activity
The 14th Governing Council Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF) took place in Manila, the Philippines, on November 25, 2013. The workshop on the Asia Water Information System (AWIS) hosted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) fol-lowed on November 26-27.
Since its official launch on September 27, 2006, APWF organized the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Beppu, Japan, in 2007 and the 2nd meeting in Chang Mai, Thailand, in 2013. Un-der priority themes common across the Asia-Pacific region including water-related disaster management, APWF has been trying to provide top-quality and user-friendly network coordination services on a highly participatory bottom-up approach supported by a light managerial and administrative structure responsible for coordinating the activities. Its Governing Council meeting is normally held twice a year, including the participation of lead organizations under the three priority themes. At the 14th Governing Council, ICHARM, as the lead organization for water-related disaster management, expressed its willingness to contribute to water and disaster risk management and introduced case studies in Thailand and Cambodia as well as local practices for achieving reduced vulnerability and increased resilience in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and capacity building for practitioners through training and collaboration with local governments and institutions so that the application of technological tools can be appropriately processed, understand-ing the APWF as an important platform to create partnership with international and national institutions. The other themes, highlighted for APWF activities in the previ-ous Governing Council, were also followed up: Asian Water Information System by ADB, Water and Green Economy by UNESCAP, UNESCO and UN-Habitat, Urban Wa-ter Management by UNESCO, UN-Habitat and PUB, and Integrated Water Resources Management by NARBO. The Governing Council confirmed that the APWF’s activi-ties and achievements to each priority area should be clarified to help visualize how much its activities have contributed to increasing water security in the region and identified APWF’s concrete future action plans.
The main object of the following AWIS workshop was to develop time-bound targets and strategies for AWIS establishment, and to identify a core-group of institutions and countries to lead development of a pilot demonstration of the AWIS by March 2015. AWIS is one of the APWF priority areas, as declared to “invite the Asia-Pacific Water Forum to mobilize initiatives in support of all these recommendations, and to encourage consideration, as appropriate, of green economy policies in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, as well as the establishment of Asia Water Information System” at Chiang Mai, Thailand, during the second Asia-Pacific Water Summit on May 20, 2013. At the initial stage of the workshop, ADB gave an overview of AWIS. The first key issue for AWIS is to improve internal data management and learn how to work with other agencies in the same country to es-tablish partnership on data management. ICHARM showed its activities in the con-text of globally available data and local practices to manage the risk of water related disasters, such as IFAS, RRI, Global BTOP, Flood Inundation Depth Map, Global Flood Risk Assessment, and related capacity development. Following on from the discus-sion around the concept of the AWIS, participants discussed the expected outcome of such a demonstration phase which was to be completed for presentation at the 7th World Water Forum in Daegu, Korea in April 2015.
14th Governing Council Meeting of APWF and the Consultation Workshop on Asian Water Information System, November 25-27, 2013 in Manila, Philippines
(Written by Masahiko Murase)
14th APWF Governing Council in Manila on November 25, 2013,
the picture contributed by APWF Secretariat (Japan Water Forum)
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Networking ActivityBudapest Water Summit: The Role of Water and Sanitation in the Global Sustainable Development Agenda
Leaders, academics, decision- and opinion-makers gathered in Hungary for the Bu-dapest Water Summit on October 8 to 11, 2013. Representing ICHARM, Professor Takeuchi and Research Specialist Kelly Kibler were in attendance. This meeting was an opportunity for the international water community to organize support for a dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on Water and to discuss how such a goal may be structured, financed, implemented, and monitored. In his opening address, the Secretary General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, called for full engagement across all sectors and actors to design SDGs, which are bold and ambitious, yet simple in design, inclusive and applicable to all, and which sup-port equitable provisions of human rights. The key themes of discussion included the Water- Energy-Food nexus, building green economies, importance of strong water governance to support SDGs, and the need to forge new partnerships, most notably with the private sector.
Many speakers referenced relationships between water-related disaster risk and successful attainment of a comprehensive sustainable water goal; however, IC-HARM’s Professor Takeuchi was the only speaker to confront this issue head-on in his keynote address. As a strong voice for those whose human rights are compro-mised by burdens of repeated disasters, Professor Takeuchi and ICHARM worked to ensure that the outcome document of the meeting, the Budapest Statement, in-cluded water-related disasters as one of the four recommended priority themes of a dedicated water goal. As a crucial milestone leading up to adoption of the SDGs, opinions created at the Budapest Water Summit will likely be echoed in SDG pro-posals from many agencies which will appear in coming months.
(Written by Kelly Kibler)
Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop
The 8th Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop was held at Macau on Decem-ber 2-7, 2013. Chief Researcher Minoru Kamoto and Principle Senior Researcher Yoshikazu Shimizu of ICHARM participated in this event.
This time, a special session was set up to discuss issues concerning Typhoon Haiy-an, a extremely strong tropical storm that hit the Philippines last November. In the session, a group of experts intently listened to reports about the storm and had an intensive discussion on what can be done and what should be done. Filipino experts told the participants that warnings of 6-meter-high storm surges had been out hours before, but no storm-surge risk maps were available and no information was provided about where to evacuate.
The Hydrological Working Group session was also held during the workshop. Kamoto chaired the meeting, and Shimizu re-ported on a research project aiming at detec-tion of debris flow and shallow landslide risk by using satellite-based rainfall data. Experts from Thailand commented in favor of the project, rec-ognizing that it will be effective in their country.
On the final day of the workshop, Kamoto re-ported the discussion results of the Hydrological Working Group session at the plenary meeting.
I studied physical geography and geomorphology, and analyzed landform development processes of fluvial low-land under tropical monsoon influences and the relation-ship between fluvio-geomophic environment and establishment of human societies. At ICHARM, from a geographic point of view, I would like to contribute to mitigation of water disaster risk around the world, which has various natural and cultural backgrounds.
Japan
Five new members joined ICHARM. They would like to say brief hellos to the readers around the world.
Yoko HAGIWARAResearch Specialist
Before joining ICHARM, I worked with UNISDR, and supported national and regional efforts and cooperation for reducing disaster risk that originates from natural hazards. At ICHARM, I would like to work together with rapidly-growing Asian countries to strengthen the re-gion's capacity in managing the risk of water-related hazards by shedding light on socio-economic impacts of such hazards.
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Other TopicsNew ICHARM Members
Md. Nasif AhsanResearch Assistant
Over the years, I have enjoyed the research experience during my undergraduate and post grad-uate program along with my work ex- peri-ence as a university faculty-member. My long-term objective is to instigate and con-tinue innovative and cutting edge works in the area of disaster risk management with specific focus on social sciences with a view to forming individual research group as well as establishing collaborations with renowned re-search groups in the scientific community all over the world. Hence, I am happy to choose ICHARM for my Ph.D study on Disaster Man-agement which will help me to gain compre-hensive insight into the recent developed methodologies and techniques of analyzing impacts of natural hazard led risk reduction.
Robin Kumar BiswasResearch Assistant
Wish you all a year of success and happiness! Suspended sediment transport proc-ess in large braided rivers like the Brahmaputra and the Ganges is causing river bank erosion which is a unique water related disaster in Bang-ladesh. Every year river bank erosion causes people to lose their houses, livelihood, institu-tions etc. and thus often found themselves into the vicious cycle of disasters and endless pov-erty. I would like to devote my efforts to reduce the havoc of at risk society from the effects sed-iment induced hazards. With my experience and knowledge, I would also like to contribute to ICHARM’s mission of water related disaster management at regional and global level. I feel much honored to be part of ICHARM family.
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ts Mahsa FarhangiI am a PhD student at University of Tehran, Iran and I had a chance to visit ICHARM for the internship from Oct.15 to Nov. 9, 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Takeuchi. This visit was full of new experiences. Communicat-ing with researchers in various fields of water resources gathering from all over the world has profoundly inspired me. During my stay at ICHARM I was working on a dis-tributed hydrologic model, BTOPMC, developed by Prof. Takeuchi and his team.To put in a nutshell, I would like to say that my time spent at ICHARM left a memorable experience for me and I am sure I could not ask for a better internship. I am looking forward to continuing my relationship and strengthen it in the future.
Iran Duong Duc ToanI am a PhD student at Kyoto University, originary from Viet-num Water Resources University in Hanoi and I had a chance to visit ICHARM for the internship from Nov., 5 to Nov. 15, 2013. The weeks internship at ICHARM was very useful and good experience for me. The working environment in ICHARM is very professional and international. People in ICHARM are not only hardworking, full of expertise but also very friendly and supportive.I attended some lectures on Integrated Flood Risk Management, Flood Hazard Mapping, and Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation Model (RRI). I also had a chance to learn to utilize RRI model and discuss with Dr. Sayama and other ICHARM researchers about applications of RRI model in flood risk assessment in some river basins in Asia. During my stay at ICHARM, I gained not only the knowledge and working experiences but also good friendship and connection with many ICHARM members. I do hope that I have another chance to collaborate with people in ICHARM in the future.
GIURA, Flood Vulnerability Assessment in the light of Rice Cultivation Characteristics in Mekong River Flood Plain in Cambodia, Paddy and Water Environment, Journal of the International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering/ Springer, Dec. 2013
● Shinji EGASHIRA, A. Yorozuya and E. K. P. Rajbanshi, Importance of riverbed evolution in predicting inundation process, Proc. HYDRO 2013 International, "IIT, Madras", pp.646-654, Dec. 2013.
● A. Sugiura, S. Fujioka, S. Nabesaka, T. Sayama, Y. Iwami, K. Fukami, S. Tanaka and K.Takeuchi, Challenges on modelling a large river basin with scarce data: A case study of the Indus upper catchment, In Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MOD-SIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp. 2346-2352, Dec. 2013.
● A. Yorozuya, H. Kamimera, T. Okazumi, Y. Iwami, and Y. Kwak, Estimation of water surface elevation on inundated area using satellite based information, In Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp. 2353-2359, Dec. 2013.
● Kelly Kibler, Minimizing geopolitically ungauged catchment area of transbounda-ry river basins to support disaster risk reduction , Hydrology in a Changing World: Environmental and Human Dimensions, IAHS, Vol.363, Nov. 2013
● Desiree Tullos, Eric Foster-Moore, Darrin Magee, Aaron Wolf, Kelly Kibler, "Biophysi-cal, Socioeconomic, and Geopolitical Vulnerabilities to Hydropower Development on the Nu River, China", Ecology and Society, Resilience Alliance, Vol.18, Nov. 2013
● K. Taki, Shinji Egashira, Method for evaluating flood disaster reduction measures in alluvial plains, Jour. Of Flood Risk Management, Wiley, Vol.6, pp.210,-218, Oct. 2013
● Yoshikazu SHIMIZU, Toshio OKAZUMI, Tadanori ISHIZUKA, "Prediction on sedi-ment related disaster through the satellite rainfall data", USMCA2013, Oct. 2013
● Kelly Kibler, Arne Skaugset, Lisa Ganio, Manuela Huso, "Effect of contemporary forest harvesting practices on headwater stream temperatures: Initial response of the Hinkle Creek catchment, Pacific Northwest, USA", Journal of Forest Ecology and Management, Elsevier, Vol.310, pp.680-691, Oct. 2013
Other Publications● 佐山敬洋, 世界の大規模洪水を監視・予測する先端技術 -2011年タイ洪水を事例に-,
Previously, I studied the water recharge potential in different river basins in Guatemala to support the development of payment for ecosystem services schemes. As part of my graduate studies I explored the gov-ernance and institutional change of flood management initiatives developed under a socio-ecological approach in Spain and the Netherlands. Currently, as a PhD stu-dent at ICHARM I would like to continue exploring how the natural, social and wa-ter related engineering systems are inter-linked in order to understand better and assess comprehensive and sustainable actions for water hazard risk manage-ment.
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